Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service

Mahler.
I remember you seemed to have had a lot of issues on your Bluos updates whereas I am in MoFi camp where I never suffered at all during updates.

However yes the Vault is long gone.

Update.
Got the iPad to work.
By putting a reclocker in line, this gave the needed 5v USB power and it sounds MUCH better than the Chromecast did so until Amazon music is found in a few more streaming apps it will stay like this for a while.

Finally got Amazon streaming in my main rig.
Looks like the Ayre does not have an internally powered USB audio input which is most odd!
So it relies on the source to provide the juice and an iPad just does not cut the mustard for that so that option went out the window. Thx Ayre!

So I moved a Chromecast Audio puck to the main rig and fed that via mini toslink adapter into a toslink input on the EX8 and at least that is working.

In fact it sounds pretty darn good I have to say.

Nice to have options.....

David

A good friend (thx Robelvick) who has just got the Amazon on trial too has offered what seems to be at least a working solution for now.
He used a Lightning to Camera ( female USB) adapter right out of his iPad and then any decent USB audio cable.
This basically mimics using a MacBook as a USB audio source.
Says it streams 24/192 quite happily that way.
Of course this literally ties the iPad to the rack as now it is tethered by cable but if SQ is up there I can live with that for now.

Oh also he has an Audioquest Jitterbug inline too.

Anybody have any usefull ideas around this problem?

Just signed up for the 90 day free trial for Amazon music hd.
Loaded the apps on both my android phone and ipad mini
On the phone the app sees my two chromecast audio pucks that are on my vintage systems and streams to them instantly. Which is perfect.
The ipad does not see them and reading the help files it should not and can only stream to an airplay device.
So problem is that neither app has any way to stream to my Ayre ex8 that I see right now as it uses the mconnect control app which does not support amazon music.
email to the devs for them and they say is Amazon fault as they do not release api to 3rd party developers so not likely to see that added any time soon.
So the options to get Amazon to the ayre are as follows imho
Buy another chromecast audio and connect to the ayre through analog or a mini toslink.
However Amazon help does say music resolution is limited to std on a chromecast so kinda pointless
Or buy an airport express, connect it via ethernet cable to my network then via 3.5mm to 2 rca into the ayre. According to Amazon help this MIGHT stream in hd.
Sounds like a crap shoot either way and both options leave the ayre actual built in streaming out in the cold.
Unless anyone here may know of some other way round it?

Hk-fan
Me neither!
That's why I went to Qobuz... Lol.

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Be careful what you wish for......

As of right now I could not try Amazon Music if I wanted to.
Neither mconnect or Bubbleupnp offer Amazon Music as an option.
Being Ayre based streaming they are my only options for control app's.

If it gains traction I am sure it will be added to one or the other at some stage.

Agree with this!
If I have to do anything more than push a few icons on my phone to listen to whatever it is I am streaming I am not interested.

Not sure why, I remember from my days with the Vault2 that Amazon Music was there as a service.
I tried it and it worked for sure.

This was on another Amazon thread, not sure if it will help you.

Amazon HD resides within the Amazon Music service on the Node, its just not very well implemented yet. Hopefully this will change. Unlike Tidal and Quboz where you get album thumbnails that show what the resolution is, Amazon Music just shows albums as a list, with no way to know what the resolution is until you start playing. Once playing, the album resolution will show in the now playing box. I haven’t found a way to search by resolution. This is with the BlueOS app on iPad. Hopefully, Bluesound will issue an update to address this. I’ve signed up for the 90 day trial of Amazon HD but won’t renew unless there is a change in the Bluesound app. If I’m missing something, hopefully someone will point me in the right direction.

Going to wait this one out for a bit.
Was very dissapointed with Amazon last go around.
Word so far is that this relaunch is not quite as rosy as they say.
Big surprise.....
Not!